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|name=Ben Pasternak |image=Ben Pasternak.jpg |caption=Ben Pasternak at Heureka Conference |birth_name=Benjamin Pasternak |birth_date={{Birth date and age|df=y|1999|09|06}} |birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales, AU. |residence = New York, New York, U.S. |education=Reddam House, Moriah College |occupation=Entrepreneur |known_for=Co-founder of Monkey Inc. }}Benjamin Pasternak (born 6 September 1999) is an Australian entrepreneur and computer programmer. He is the co-founder of the American technology and social media company Monkey, which was acquired by Holla Inc. in December 2017.[1] He began his career while still in high school in Sydney creating two viral iOS games, Impossible Rush and Impossible Dial.[2] Ben is recognised as the youngest person to receive a round of venture capital in technology, at just 15 years of age.[3]Fortune Magazine described Pasternak as a young innovator who is changing the world.[4] Pasternak was included in Crain's New York Business Magazine '20 Under 20' list as a teen who cares about the world and wants to make his mark on it. He was also named one of TIME Magazine's Most Influential Teens.[5] Early life and educationBen was born in Sydney, to Anna Pasternak and Mark Pasternak.[6] Pasternak grew up in Vaucluse, New South Wales. He was raised Jewish. He was educated at Moriah College and Reddam House in Bondi, New South Wales. He dropped out of high school in tenth grade.[7] Pasternak completed his first app, Impossible Rush while bored in science class at school. Impossible Rush and his second app Impossible Dial went on to get millions of downloads and were both the No. 1 trending app in multiple countries.[8] CareerImpossible Games (2014–2015)When Ben was 14 years old he designed Impossible Rush, while bored in science class at school. He showed the idea to his online friend Austin Valleskey, an iOS engineer from Chicago. They completed building the game in a matter of hours and later sold it to Carlos Fajardo who launched the game for them. The game went on to be downloaded millions of times and peaked at No. 16 on the US App Store (iOS). The game overtook Tinder and Twitter on the App Store (iOS) top charts.[9] Ben released the game Impossible Dial as a follow up to his original game Impossible Rush. The game later sold for $85,000.[10] The game peaked at No. 31 on the US App Store (iOS).[11] Flogg (2015–2016)Ben's early success caught the attention of venture capital firm Binary Capital. Binary Capital agreed to lead a round of venture capital funding in Flogg, they were joined by other investors including Greylock Partners, John Maloney and Paul Bricault. After Pasternak received venture capital funding at 15 years of age, he dropped out of high school and relocated to Manhattan.[12][13] Flogg is a social networking app for young people to buy and sell. The app launched on 13 April 2016 and was temporarily the No. 1 trending app in The United States, (Germany) and Australia.[14] Monkey (2016–2018)Ben co-founded Monkey, which was launched on 29 November 2016. Monkey is a video chat based app for teenagers to meet new people.[15][16] The app has been used to make over 20,000,000,000 calls and has over 15,000,000 users. The app peaked at No. 1 on the US App Store (iOS).[17][18] On 1 December 2017 Holla Inc. announced that it had acquired Monkey.[10] NUGGS (2018–2019)Ben founded a new company named NUGGS, NUGGS is a new type of food company that is always written in uppercase. Their first product NUGGS is a chicken nugget simulation.[19] References1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/16/meet-monkeys-teen-age-founders|title=Meet Monkey's Teen-Age Founders|first=Charles|last=Bethea|date=9 January 2017|work=The New Yorker}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Pasternak, Benjamin}}2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/09/teens-invent-app-impossible-rush-ben-pasternak_n_5955392.html|title=This Teen Invented An App That Overtook Tinder, Twitter on the App Charts|first=Dominique|last=Mosbergen|date=9 October 2014|work=Huff Post}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/video/meet-the-16-year-old-ceo-of-mobile-app-flogg/A4795880-8A1C-4E39-BE08-6F02960CA03A.html|title=Meet the 16-Year-Old CEO of Mobile App 'Flogg'|work=The Wall Street Journal}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://fortune.com/2016/09/15/18-entrepreneurs-under-18-teen-business|title=18 Under 18: Meet the Young Innovators Who Are Changing the World}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://time.com/4532104/most-influential-teens-2016/|title=The 30 Most Influential Teens of 2016|website=Time}} 6. ^{{Cite web|url=https://nypost.com/2016/04/14/this-16-year-old-millionaire-is-living-your-dream-life/|title=Why this high school dropout is actually the most enviable teen in NYC|last=Laneri|first=Raquel|date=14 April 2016|website=New York Post|access-date=1 June 2017}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=https://nypost.com/2016/04/14/this-16-year-old-millionaire-is-living-your-dream-life/|title=Why this high school dropout is actually the most enviable teen in NYC|date=14 April 2016}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://mashable.com/2015/01/22/ben-pasternak-australia-tech/|title=Teen whiz kid eyes Google, Facebook after creating addictive game|first=Jenni|last=Ryall}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/smartphone-apps/is-this-15yearold-australian-the-next-mark-zuckerberg-20141008-10rrzm.html|title=Is this 15-year-old Australian the next Mark Zuckerberg?|first=Hannah|last=Francis|date=8 October 2014|work=The Sydney Morning Herald}} 10. ^1 {{Cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/technology/smartphone-apps/my-parents-haven-t-given-me-a-single-cent-grandson-of-australia-s-second-richest-person-out-to-prove-himself-20171217-p4yxsl.html|title='My parents haven't given me a single cent': great-nephew of Australia's second richest person out to prove himself|last=Grubb|first=Ben|date=18 December 2017|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=21 January 2018}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=http://heavy.com/tech/2016/04/ben-pasternak-teen-ceo-flogg-impossible-rush/|title=Ben Pasternak: The Teen CEO Behind Flogg|first=Jennifer|last=Dzikowski|date=14 April 2016}} 12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/technology/smartphone-apps/how-aussie-16yearold-ben-pasternak-became-ceo-of-his-own-startup-flogg-inc-20160414-go674s.html|title=How Aussie 16-year-old Ben Pasternak became CEO of his own start-up Flogg Inc|first=Hannah|last=Francis|date=15 April 2016|work=The Sydney Morning Herald}} 13. ^{{Cite news|url=https://fossbytes.com/ben-pasternak-ceo-flogg-millionaire/|title=Ben Pasternak – 16-year-old Game Developer And CEO of A$2 Million Company|last=Verma|first=Adarsh|date=12 December 2016|work=Fossbytes|access-date=1 June 2017}} 14. ^https://twitter.com/NathanSchafer99/status/721244759692423168{{Primary source inline|date=February 2018}} 15. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.9news.com.au/9stories/2017/04/14/12/00/sydney-high-school-dropout-sitting-on-multi-million-dollar-empire|title=Sydney high school dropout sitting on million-dollar empire|work=news|access-date=1 June 2017}} 16. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/social-network/2017/01/22/news/monkey_il_social_dei_teenager-156639152/|title=Monkey, tutti in videochat: il nuovo social dei teenager|date=22 January 2017|work=la Repubblica|access-date=1 June 2017|language=it}} 17. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4415560/Ben-Pasternak-17-making-millions-teen-focused-apps.html|title=High school dropout, 17, making millions from teen-focused apps|work=Daily Mail|access-date=1 June 2017}} 18. ^{{Cite web|url=http://mashable.com/2017/01/19/monkey-social-networking-app-teenagers/|title=Forget Facebook, forget Snapchat: Teens are doing it themselves|last=Bogle|first=Ariel|website=Mashable|access-date=1 June 2017}} 19. ^{{Cite news|url=https://medium.com/@BenPasternak/nuggs-10a0a460a04c|title= NUGGS |work=news|access-date=14 February 2019}} 5 : 1999 births|Living people|Businesspeople from Sydney|Australian expatriates in the United States|People educated at Moriah College |
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